Python Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 15 13
Rank change year-on-year -20 -2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Python 253 401 432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.44% 8.33% 11.37%
As % of the Programming Languages category 37.48% 30.26% 27.08%
Number of salaries quoted 98 209 267
10th Percentile £40,173 £38,396 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £42,500 £48,900
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% -16.30% +8.72%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,125 £85,000 £90,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -12.00% +4.17%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 675 1,325 1,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 17.19% 27.52% 41.98%
Number of salaries quoted 390 843 1,153
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £43,563 £45,000 £47,890
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £93,750
South East median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Python as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -41 111 £47,520 -23.97% 257
Buckinghamshire -7 76 £58,250 +5.91% 61
Oxfordshire +3 66 £65,000 +36.84% 53
Python
South East

Python
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (6.32%) IBM Domino
2 6 (2.37%) CMS
3 2 (0.79%) Confluence
4 1 (0.40%) Apache
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.40%) Appian
Applications
1 7 (2.77%) MadCap Flare
1 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.79%) Simulink
3 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.40%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.40%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 83 (32.81%) AWS
2 67 (26.48%) Azure
3 56 (22.13%) GCP
4 29 (11.46%) Amazon EC2
4 29 (11.46%) Serverless
5 26 (10.28%) Amazon EKS
5 26 (10.28%) Snowflake
6 25 (9.88%) Amazon ECS
7 22 (8.70%) Power Platform
8 14 (5.53%) GitHub
9 8 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.77%) Google Analytics
10 7 (2.77%) Google Docs
11 6 (2.37%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.37%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (1.58%) PaaS
13 4 (1.58%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (15.02%) VPN
2 37 (14.62%) TCP/IP
3 12 (4.74%) DNS
3 12 (4.74%) Firewall
4 8 (3.16%) WAN
5 6 (2.37%) LAN
6 4 (1.58%) Broadband
6 4 (1.58%) DHCP
7 3 (1.19%) HTTP
7 3 (1.19%) InfiniBand
7 3 (1.19%) Internet
7 3 (1.19%) Wireless
8 2 (0.79%) FTP
8 2 (0.79%) MQTT
8 2 (0.79%) SMTP
8 2 (0.79%) SSH
9 1 (0.40%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.40%) Network Security
9 1 (0.40%) SSL
9 1 (0.40%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (18.58%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (12.25%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (12.25%) Relational Database
3 27 (10.67%) Metadata
4 26 (10.28%) BigQuery
4 26 (10.28%) Data Lake
4 26 (10.28%) RDBMS
5 19 (7.51%) Power BI
6 16 (6.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (2.37%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.98%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.58%) MySQL
10 3 (1.19%) Tableau
11 2 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.79%) Looker
11 2 (0.79%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 35 (13.83%) Cucumber
2 34 (13.44%) Robot Framework
3 32 (12.65%) Jenkins
4 24 (9.49%) JMeter
4 24 (9.49%) JUnit
4 24 (9.49%) Mockito
5 22 (8.70%) Git
6 9 (3.56%) JIRA
7 4 (1.58%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.19%) Burp Suite
8 3 (1.19%) GitLab
8 3 (1.19%) Metasploit
8 3 (1.19%) MLflow
8 3 (1.19%) Selenium
9 2 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.79%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.40%) Appium
10 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.40%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.40%) SoapUI
General
1 88 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 47 (18.58%) Law
3 43 (17.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 42 (16.60%) Telecoms
5 30 (11.86%) Marketing
6 25 (9.88%) Public Sector
7 19 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (4.74%) Finance
9 11 (4.35%) Retail
10 9 (3.56%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.77%) Aerospace
12 6 (2.37%) Tech for Good
13 5 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.58%) Legal
14 4 (1.58%) Retail Finance
15 2 (0.79%) Advertising
15 2 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.79%) Multimedia
16 1 (0.40%) Health Technology
16 1 (0.40%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 42 (16.60%) Senior
2 38 (15.02%) Lead
3 36 (14.23%) Developer
4 34 (13.44%) Test Automation Engineer
4 34 (13.44%) Test Engineer
5 24 (9.49%) Java Developer
6 23 (9.09%) Architect
7 20 (7.91%) Cloud Architect
7 20 (7.91%) GCP Architect
7 20 (7.91%) Platform Architect
8 18 (7.11%) Software Engineer
9 16 (6.32%) Full-Stack Developer
10 15 (5.93%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 9 (3.56%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 8 (3.16%) Analyst
13 7 (2.77%) Author
13 7 (2.77%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (2.77%) Technical Author
14 6 (2.37%) Ruby Engineer
14 6 (2.37%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (15.02%) HTML
2 28 (11.07%) REST
3 25 (9.88%) Spring
4 24 (9.49%) ActiveMQ
4 24 (9.49%) Apache Camel
4 24 (9.49%) Hibernate
4 24 (9.49%) jQuery
4 24 (9.49%) Spring Boot
4 24 (9.49%) Web Services
4 24 (9.49%) WireMock
5 19 (7.51%) JSON
6 18 (7.11%) XML
7 10 (3.95%) React
8 9 (3.56%) .NET
9 8 (3.16%) Ruby on Rails
10 7 (2.77%) Qt
11 5 (1.98%) CSS
11 5 (1.98%) Pandas
12 4 (1.58%) FastAPI
12 4 (1.58%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.83%) Linux Command Line
2 25 (9.88%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.56%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.77%) Embedded Systems
5 7 (2.77%) IoT
6 6 (2.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.98%) SCADA
8 4 (1.58%) Industry 4.0
8 4 (1.58%) Learning Management System
8 4 (1.58%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 3 (1.19%) Cyberattack
9 3 (1.19%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.19%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.79%) Acoustics
10 2 (0.79%) PCIe
10 2 (0.79%) Replication
11 1 (0.40%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.40%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 68 (26.88%) Linux
2 44 (17.39%) Windows
3 13 (5.14%) Unix
4 3 (1.19%) Kali Linux
5 2 (0.79%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.79%) Android
5 2 (0.79%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.79%) VMS
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (26.88%) Analytics
2 66 (26.09%) Mentoring
3 56 (22.13%) Agile
3 56 (22.13%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (21.74%) DevOps
5 45 (17.79%) Data Engineering
5 45 (17.79%) Test Automation
6 40 (15.81%) CI/CD
7 37 (14.62%) Business Intelligence
7 37 (14.62%) Validation
8 35 (13.83%) ETL
9 34 (13.44%) Coaching
9 34 (13.44%) System Testing
9 34 (13.44%) Test Management
10 33 (13.04%) Architectural Design
10 33 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
10 33 (13.04%) Roadmaps
10 33 (13.04%) TDD
11 32 (12.65%) Data Management
12 30 (11.86%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 94 (37.15%) SQL
2 88 (34.78%) JavaScript
3 63 (24.90%) Java
4 59 (23.32%) Bash
5 51 (20.16%) PowerShell
6 30 (11.86%) C++
7 26 (10.28%) Shell Script
8 24 (9.49%) Go
9 21 (8.30%) C
10 18 (7.11%) T-SQL
11 17 (6.72%) C#
11 17 (6.72%) Ruby
12 16 (6.32%) MATLAB
13 12 (4.74%) TypeScript
14 11 (4.35%) PHP
14 11 (4.35%) R
14 11 (4.35%) Rust
15 9 (3.56%) Dart
16 7 (2.77%) Perl
17 5 (1.98%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 97 (38.34%) Degree
2 30 (11.86%) Security Cleared
3 15 (5.93%) SC Cleared
4 14 (5.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.95%) Master's Degree
6 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.37%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.37%) PhD
8 5 (1.98%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.58%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.58%) MCSE
9 4 (1.58%) RHCE
10 3 (1.19%) LPIC
10 3 (1.19%) OSCP
11 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 2 (0.79%) DV Cleared
12 1 (0.40%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.40%) Dell Certification
12 1 (0.40%) GPEN
12 1 (0.40%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (25.30%) QA
2 27 (10.67%) Data Quality
3 26 (10.28%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.58%) GDPR
5 3 (1.19%) NIST
6 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 43 (17.00%) Docker
2 5 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.58%) vCloud
4 3 (1.19%) GPFS
4 3 (1.19%) Lustre
4 3 (1.19%) NFS
5 2 (0.79%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.79%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.40%) HDFS
6 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (22.53%) Kubernetes
2 24 (9.49%) Kibana
3 20 (7.91%) Terraform
4 18 (7.11%) Ansible
5 4 (1.58%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (1.58%) Rundeck
6 3 (1.19%) Nmap
7 2 (0.79%) Grafana
7 2 (0.79%) Kubeflow
7 2 (0.79%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.79%) SCCM
8 1 (0.40%) Argo
8 1 (0.40%) Nessus
8 1 (0.40%) PingFederate
8 1 (0.40%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.40%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (12.25%) Google
2 24 (9.49%) Dynatrace
2 24 (9.49%) Splunk
3 8 (3.16%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.37%) Aruba
4 6 (2.37%) Cisco
4 6 (2.37%) Fortinet
4 6 (2.37%) Mellanox
4 6 (2.37%) NVIDIA
4 6 (2.37%) Palo Alto
4 6 (2.37%) Siemens
4 6 (2.37%) VMware
5 5 (1.98%) Allen-Bradley
5 5 (1.98%) Databricks
6 2 (0.79%) Alteryx
6 2 (0.79%) HubSpot
6 2 (0.79%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.79%) SolarWinds
6 2 (0.79%) Talend
6 2 (0.79%) Zoho